Entertainment

The 2015 Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix will showcase a world of off-track entertainment with an array of activities to suit fans of all ages. Our entertainment schedule is now live and features some old favourites and some fabulous new off-track diversions.

General Admission

Melbourne’s spectacular Albert Park street circuit is the perfect setting for the opening round of the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship™ season. Get your first look at the new V6 Turbo power unit in action and see how they perform under the new regulations.

James Boag's Premium Zone Upgrade

Upgrade your existing General Admission or Grandstand ticket to access the James Boag's Premium Zone. This is the perfect place to upgrade your Grand Prix experience and enjoy a more comfortable and social environment.

GA + James Boag's Premium Zone Package

These packages include a General Admission ticket as well as access to the James Boag's Premium Zone. With a range of single day, or multi-day packaged options the James Boag's Premium Zone is the perfect place to kick back and enjoy the race.

4-day Grandstand

4-corner Grandstands

The 4 Corner Grandstand ticket option provides an opportunity to experience 4 different stand locations across the 4 days of the event. Watch the action from unique vantage points in a different grandstand each day.

Inside Formula 1®

Commodore charger Shane Van Gisbergen has blitzed the field to win the third MSS Security-backed V8 Supercars Challenge race at the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

On a wet track, the 23-year-old old delivered a master class, vaulting through from ninth on the grid to win the 12-lap race by a massive 12.6072 seconds from Craig Lowndes, with Jonathan Webb in third to make it a Commodore clean sweep of the top spots.

Van Gisbergen also set the fastest lap of the race with a 2:11.6281, nearly a second ahead of Webb’s best.

David Coulthard’s sense of impeccable timing has continued, claiming his third successive victory in the popular Ultimate Speed Comparison one-lap handicap event at the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

Craig Baird has hit back with a vengeance in race two of the Porsche Carrera Cup program at the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

After finishing – for him – a lowly third in race one, today was all about redemption, and the New Zealander’s intentions were clear from the outset when he nipped underneath Steve Richards at turn one seconds after the start.

From there, he wasn’t headed again, although he did have to contend with Nick Percat sitting on his bumper for a fair chunk of the eight-lap journey.

Looking at it another way, the great Murray Walker used to say that he never made mistakes, only predictions that didn’t always come true.

So what should we expect and/or predict when it comes to qualifying for the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix?

History first: the men who have been on pole here for the last seven years are all back again. That’s Jenson Button (2006, 2009), Kimi Raikkonen (2007), Lewis Hamilton (2008, 2012) and Sebastian Vettel (2010, 2011).

If you were among the crowd at the Australian Grand Prix 11 years ago, the name Coulthard should be familiar to you.

Not just because ‘DC’, Scotland’s F1 star David Coulthard, led the Formula 1 race for 10 laps in his McLaren Mercedes: his (literally) distant cousin, New Zealander Fabian Coulthard, was also on track.

Not among the F1 elite, of course: the English-born New Zealand driver was making his Albert Park debut as a Formula Ford driver. The field, in which his combative driving stood out, included names like J. Whincup.

Those two linked topics topped the bill when a group of team chiefs and major component suppliers met the media at Albert Park on Friday.

‘The world is changing’, was the keynote, and Formula 1 must change with it to ensure ongoing financial health.

The Formula 1 panel revealed concerns that the sport is facing a major challenge to sustain its levels of financial success as we move from traditional television viewing habits to younger, more flexible multi-platform media audiences.

Victorian Steve Richards has joined his legendary father Jim on the Porsche Carrera Cup winners’ list at Albert Park with an all-the-way victory at Albert Park this afternoon, as the support class program at the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix continues to provide some hotly contested competition.

Richards got the better of polesitter Nick Percat from the start, and then successfully kept the shutters up for the remainder of the eight-lapper, despite some very close attention from Craig Baird at first, before Percat took up the cause.

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